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" Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director. "

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" My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa. "

" In 'Billy Madison,' I worked with Adam before anyone really knew he was Adam Sandler. "

" All of my main characters have been under 30. "

" Many classrooms are overcrowded, and splitting the class into smaller groups gives the children more one on one attention. "

" I do have a priority in my house, and that is I want my kids to be healthy, and if I give them the right food, I am headed consistently toward that goal. "

" Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school. "

" I have this concept that I call 'Combo Meals.' The idea is that I start with the kids' meal and then add a few more ingredients, and it becomes the adult meal. This way I'm not making two entirely separate dishes. I'm just simply adding on to what I'm already making. "

" Pesto is such a great standard. It's so simple to make and always tastes good. "

" I have been lucky in my life to have met people that are special, so extraordinary talented that they somehow are on a different plane. Sometimes these amazingly talented people find a way to keep reinventing themselves to stay relevant and alive. Some fall under the crushing vibrancy of their own intensity. "

" It felt amazing to be one of a handful working female directors in Hollywood. "

" I read the script for 'Guncrazy' in 1985 and loved it because it was one of the few scripts I'd come across that revolved around a strong female character. "

" There's no continuity in videos... you can jump around all over the place. In features, you can't throw in a close-up of a musician stomping on a guitar - you have to film a scene. "

" I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person. "

" Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important. "

" I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features. "

" I'm extremely determined and ambitious. "

" It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25. "

" A school morning is usually a pretty hectic time in any household. "

" Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow. "

" My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York. "

" I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad. "

" I understand that in some families both parents have to work, so the kids are home alone eating more processed foods. But if the kids know how to make oatmeal or eggs in the morning or pasta or a lentil soup at night - we're giving them real survival tools. "

" What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun. "

" My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child. "

" In 1983, I was working at an art gallery in Los Angeles and going to film school at Los Angeles City College. At that time, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a young painter and was visiting L.A. for his first show at the Larry Gagosian Gallery. "

" I came up with this statistic that if a kid makes something himself, he's 90 to 95% likely to try it. And of course, then, if it's good, he'll eat it! "